Exam 10: Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment
Exam 1: The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations82 Questions
Exam 2: The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual74 Questions
Exam 3: The Greeks: From Myth to Reason95 Questions
Exam 4: Rome: From City-State to World Empire93 Questions
Exam 5: Early Christianity: a World Religion79 Questions
Exam 6: The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions89 Questions
Exam 7: The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization84 Questions
Exam 8: Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation92 Questions
Exam 9: Political and Economic Transformation: National States, Overseas Expansion, Commercial Revolution84 Questions
Exam 10: Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment86 Questions
Exam 11: The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality92 Questions
Exam 12: The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society79 Questions
Exam 13: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century82 Questions
Exam 14: Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Unification78 Questions
Exam 15: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social Criticism86 Questions
Exam 16: Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, Nationalism, Imperialism93 Questions
Exam 17: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts78 Questions
Exam 18: World War I: the West in Despair83 Questions
Exam 19: An Era of Totalitarianism87 Questions
Exam 20: World War 2: Western Civilization in the Balance55 Questions
Exam 21: Europe After World War 2: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-198963 Questions
Exam 22: The Troubled Present55 Questions
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-Central to the practice of modern science is the experimental method of investigation and testing scientific theories. Who were some of the pioneers of experimental method in the Scientific Revolution and what were their achievements?

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-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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-Explain how Enlightenment ideas, in breaking with the medieval worldview, had an impact on the modern intellectual perspective.

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-Encyclopedia
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-John Locke
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Modern astronomy began with ____, a Polish astronomer, mathematician, and church canon.
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Which of the following discovered the three basic laws of planetary motion?
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______________ wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
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-Diderot
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-Montesquieu
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-How did the Scientific Revolution cause a reorientation in Western thought?

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It was natural that the Enlightenment would grow directly from the Scientific Revolution because of all of the following EXCEPT
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Which of the following wrote, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?
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-Discuss the contributions of Montesquieu to modern political theory.

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-Which characteristics of the philosophes illustrate a new way of looking at the world? List three major philosophes and comment upon their major contributions.

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